Centre for Population Genomics
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The Centre for
Population Genomics

At the Centre for Population Genomics, we are working to create a world in which genomic information enables comprehensive disease prediction, accurate diagnosis and effective therapeutics for all people.

Genomic medicine uses the information in a person’s genes to guide disease diagnosis and decisions about suitable treatments. In the future, health will be based on an individualised model of care, informed by the data contained in a person’s genes.

Australia, thanks to its strengths in both research and healthcare, has an opportunity to be an international leader in the development of genomic medicine and its application to the entire population. But much remains to be done.

For Australia to reach its full potential in deploying genomic medicine, several key developments are required and the Centre works across all of these:

reference databases of genomic sequences representing the full diversity of the people of Australia
computational infrastructure for the management of very large genomic data sets
new analytical tools capable of investigating data at huge scale
a more thorough understanding of how genetic variation contributes to disease and health
improved therapeutics and clinical translation of research findings
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The Centre for Population Genomics is a national initiative, jointly housed at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. We work all across the country and collaborate with partners internationally and in Australia.

At CPG, we celebrate and respect diversity in our team and our work. We believe that including all human diversity in genomic research will empower medical care that benefits everyone.

We acknowledge the First Australian peoples on whose traditional lands we live and work across the country and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We gratefully accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart “to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future”.

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